Rizzo the Rat is a Muppet, performed by Steve Whitmire. Rizzo first appeared in episode 418 of The Muppet Show, as one of a group of rats following Christopher Reeve around backstage. He can be seen mugging and reacting to practically every line of dialogue. He remained a scene-stealing background figure through the final season, occasionally performing with Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem.
After that he appeared in The Great Muppet Caper as a bellboy in a fleabag London hotel. He has appeared in most later Muppet projects, including The Muppets Take Manhattan and Muppets Tonight. In The Muppet Christmas Carol, he developed a popular double act with Gonzo, which was continued in Muppet Treasure Island and in Muppets from Space.
Rizzo is a streetwise rat with a New Jersey accent and a self-proclaimed acrophobic ("There are only two things... I hate: heights, and jumping from them"). His name was inspired by the similar (human) character of Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo in the film Midnight Cowboy.
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In the Woods is a 2007 mystery novel by Tana French about a pair of Irish detectives and their investigation of the murder of a twelve year old girl. The novel won several awards such as the 2008 Edgar Award for Best First Novel By An American Author, the 2008 Barry Award for Best First Novel, the 2008 Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel, and the 2008 Anthony Award for Best First Novel.
Twenty years prior to the novel's events, twelve year-old Adam and his two best friends failed to come home after playing in the familiar woods bordering their Irish housing estate. A search is called by the families, and the police find Adam shivering, clawing the bark of a nearby tree, blood on his shoes and slash marks on his back. He is unable to tell them what happened or where his friends are. His amnesia holds to the present day, where he goes by his middle name, Rob, to avoid the attention of the media to his famous case. His friends were never found.
The plot of the novel circles around the murder of a twelve year old girl, Katy Devlin, whose case Rob and his partner Cassie Maddox are given to investigate. The body is found in the same woods where Rob’s friends disappeared, at an archeological dig site, and the coincidence is enough to make Rob nervous, though he insists to his partner that he is fine.
Shoot from the back,
take good aim,
Make sure I'm dead
Bang Bang
'Cause I'm a rat
there's no mistake
Under the bed
where you sleep
Crush the skull
make me tame
Sweep it up
Hide it away
No morals shown
in no way explained
Stupid human
Shit for brains
And draw tiny pictures
'round all the days
Bag and burn
Bang Bang
Throw your judgements
across the breeze
Bag and burn
Bang Bang
You live inside
your Jesus dream
Bag and burn
Bang Bang
Get some sleep
or lie in wait
Until the day
I run away
Forget the corpse
present the case
to bring me down
and lose your words
I'll follow you
into the grave
and at the gates
I see the passing say,
"The judge be judged,
and all the rich be saved."
I throw my curse
all across your days
And draw tiny pictures
'round all the days
Bag and burn
Bang Bang
Throw your judgements
across the breeze
Bag and burn
Bang Bang
You live inside
your Jesus dream
Bag and burn
Bang Bang
And draw tiny pictures
'round all the days
Throw your judgements
across the breeze
Watch them float off
to never be saved
You live inside
You've got a nerve to be asking a favor
You've got a nerve to be calling my number
I know we've been through this before
Can't you hear me, I'm calling out your name?
Can't you see me, I'm pounding on your door?
You've got a nerve to be asking a favor
You've got a nerve to be calling my number
Can't you hear me, I'm bleeding on the wall?
Can't you see me, I'm pounding on your door?
Can't you hear me when I'm calling out your name?
When I used to go out, I would know everyone that I saw
Now I go out alone if I go out at all
When I used to go out I'd know everyone I saw
Now I go out alone if I go out at all
When I used to go out I'd know everyone I saw
Now I go out alone if I go out at all
You've got a nerve to be asking a favor
You've got a nerve to be calling my number
I'm sure we've been through this before
Can't you hear me, I'm beating on your wall?
only see what you wanna see
You're always out for self and never out for me
Given you the chance time and time again
for you to come clean but you'll never understand
Whoa
I'm rollin' on, I'm rollin' on
Whoa
I'm rollin' on, I'm rollin' on
Before you see me then I'm gone
It's like this, it's like that
Said a rat is rat so you better watch your back
Come baby, come baby, let's get it on
Back to the front, beginning of the end
Trust is a word that you'll never comprehend
Stabbed in the back and taken for a ride
No one left to turn to, no one's on your side